Make a mean peanut butter sandwich? The recipe might be worth $25,000
How much can a peanut butter sandwich be worth? Believe it or not, a $25,000 scholarship fund.
That’s the grand prize in Jif’s Most Creative Peanut Butter Sandwich Contest. Four runner-ups will each receive a $2,500 scholarship fund.The deadline is Nov. 14; complete information is at www.jif.com. For inspiration, here’s last year’s winning recipe, created by 11-year-old Samuel Sosa of Riverside, Calif.
CRUNCHY CHINESE FORTUNE COOKIE SANDWICHES
Yield: 4 after-school snacks
For Chinese dipping sauce:
1/4 cup creamy peanut butter
1/4 cup coconut milk
1 tablespoon soy sauce
1 tablespoon brown sugar
1 tablespoon lemon juice
1/2 teaspoon sesame oil
1/2 teaspoon chili powder
For sandwiches:
4 slices wheat bread
3 tablespoons creamy peanut butter
1 tablespoon finely diced celery
1 tablespoon finely diced apple
For dipping:
Apple slices
Celery slices
To make the dipping sauce: Combine all ingredients in small saucepan and cook over low heat while stirring with a wire wisk. When the mixture starts to bubble and thicken, remove from heat and let cool.
While the dipping sauce is cooling, make the sandwiches: With a rolling pin, flatten the slices of bread. Use a large round cookie cutter to cut out each slice of bread into a circle. Mix the peanut butter, celery and apple together in a small bowl. Place a tablespoon full of the peanut butter mixture into the center of bread circle. Fold the bread in half, forming a half-circle. Crimp the edges of the sandwich together with your fingers so the mix will not come out. Then, while holding the center of the sandwich, pull the sides of the sandwich down so the edges touch each other, forming a fortune-cookie shape.
To make fortunes for your fortune cookies, use a clean plastic lid from a tub of butter, yogurt or sour cream. Cut small plastic strips, then write fortunes on them with a permanent marker. Tuck the edge of the fortune into the edge of your sandwiches.
Once the dipping sauce is cool, serve the cookie sandwiches and apple and celery slices on a plate with a cup of dipping sauce. Dip the sandwiches and the apple and celery slices into the sauce.
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Judith Evans is the food and travel editor for the Post-Dispatch. 
Too bad no sandwich with Jif is worth eating. Slap some all-natural (no hydrogenated oils) peanut butter on some bread and you instantly have a sandwich better than anything with Jif.
A better peanut butter sandwich results from putting two frozen whole grain toaster waffles in the toaster (low/pale) and washing an apple and few celery stalks, when the waffles pop up, slather one with crunchy peanut butter, put the other waffle on top, then wrap the “sandwich”, celery and apple in napkins and drop them in your day-bag, to be eaten soon before you need energy for physical activity OR…while sitting in a traffic jam, resisting making cell phone calls.